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The Blind Leading The Blind (2019)
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Blood Eagle (2017)
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Architects Of A New Weave (Deluxe Album) (2026)
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Baltimore, Maryland blackened sludge metal outfit formed in 2013, notable for incorporating jazz improvisation into their otherwise abrasive blend of black metal and sludge.
Gothenburg's Snakemass practice black metal from Sweden's metal capital since 2013. Their ophidian-congregation name channels the gathering of serpents into over a decade of atmospheric compositions from the West Coast.
Sneg channel depressive black metal from the Ticino town of Arbedo-Castione, making them a rare extreme metal voice from Switzerland's Italian-speaking south. Their sound dwells in the genre's most anguished corners, favoring raw emotion and bleak atmospheres.
Minneapolis depressive black metal project formed in 2024, channeling the bleak introspection and lo-fi rawness central to the DSBM tradition.
Raleigh, North Carolina black metal band formed in 2020, working within the raw, atmospheric end of the genre as part of the Southeast underground black metal scene.
Pittsburgh blackened psychedelic stoner and doom metal band formed in 2024, combining the murk of stoner doom with black metal's abrasive atmosphere in a hazily oppressive hybrid.
Snuff45 have been practicing black metal from an undisclosed Russian location since 1996. Three decades of activity under their provocative, violence-referencing name make them one of Russia's longest-running anonymous black metal projects.
Snaer is a black metal project from Pittsfield, Maine, formed in 2017, whose name — Old Norse for "snow" — reflects the project's affinity for cold, atmospheric extremity rooted in the bleak landscapes of the rural Northeast.
Velenje's Snogg practice black metal from the coal-mining city since 2014. Their Old Norse name meaning "quick" or "sharp" and origins in Slovenia's energy-producing heartland channel swift darkness into over a decade of atmospheric compositions.
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